Comments on: Windows Live focuses on Web Feeds

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 03:00:46 +0000

Something else to consider for web feeds/rss feeds is “MSN Alerts”. MSN Alerts “are time-sensitive notification messages that service providers can send to customers at the customer’s request. Users can receive Microsoft Alerts on their desktop computers through MSN® or Microsoft Windows® Messenger, in e-mail, or on a mobile device, such as a phone or personal digital assistant (PDA).”
In other words: you can Sign up for MSN Alerts, get some code emailed to you a few days later and add that code to your site. When users click the button the code makes, they can sign up to get updates to your rss feed sent to them via MSN Messenger and the other places mentioned above.
Some users may like that as it means the update will come to them without even having to open an rss reader!

By: Paul Boag

Paul Boag — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 17:40:01 +0000

That's the same one I use Astrid. However, mine isnt equipped with boagworld... he writes a load of boring old rubbish that I already know :)

By: Astrid

Astrid — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 17:38:30 +0000

Hi Paul, what I like best is http://www.netvibes.com/ Mine is equipped with boagworld of cause ;-) and works fine with Firefox

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 20:47:56 +0000

The microsoftgadgets.com site seems to be the place to get started writing Gadgets.

By: Paul Boag

Paul Boag — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 19:00:06 +0000

From the web feeds point of view, yes they are pretty much the same. However, Windows Live has this gadget API which will allow all kinds of additional functionality to be added in like a built in email client and IM messenger.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 17:21:57 +0000

Hi Paul, first of all, your podcasts are great! Just a question here: isn’t Windows Live pretty much the same thing as Google’s page: http://www.google.com/ig (which actually DOES work for Firefox! :) )
Take care!

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 14:32:48 +0000

I hear the word "Portal" ringing in my ears......